Inventory of the Theodore P. Hamlin Papers, 1834-1885

Collection Number 3014-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Hamlin, Theodore P., d. 1867.
Title
Theodore P. Hamlin Papers, 1834-1885.
Call Number
3014-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 100 items.
Abstract
Letters, 1864-1867, from Theodore P. Hamlin to members of his family in Edgefield, Davidson County, Tenn.; a few personal and family letters, 1850s, to Mary B. Worley of Tennessee; a few personal items, 1850s, of John S. Russworm of Williamson County, Tenn.; and itemized bills, 1881-1885, of Newt J. Dodson, Nashville, Tenn. The letters from Hamlin include nine written in 1864-1865, while he was a prisoner at Johnson's Island, Ohio, especially concerning procedures for gaining his release, and letters in 1865 about starting a cotton farm outside Nashville, Tenn.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Acquired 1954
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Theodore P. Hamlin Papers, #3014-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Agriculture--Tennessee--History--19th century.
Cotton--Tennessee--History--19th century.
Davidson County (Tenn.)--History--19th century.
Dodson, Newt J., fl. 1881-1885.
Family--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
Hamlin, Theodore P., d. 1867.
Johnson Island Prison.
Russworm, John S., fl. 1850.
Tennessee--Social life and customs.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
Worley, Mary B., fl. 1850.
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Collection Overview

Letters, 1864-1867, from Theodore P. Hamlin to members of his family in Edgefield, Davidson County, Tenn.; a few personal and family letters, 1850s, to Mary B. Worley of Tennessee; a few personal items, 1850s, of John S. Russworm of Williamson County, Tenn.; and itemized bills, 1881-1885, of Newt J. Dodson, Nashville, Tenn. The letters from Hamlin include nine written in 1864-1865, while he was a prisoner at Johnson's Island, Ohio, especially concerning procedures for gaining his release, and letters in 1865 about starting a cotton farm outside Nashville, Tenn.